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Li Quan was born in a wealthy family of Andongquan family, and his father was the leader of the government. 1582 martial arts qualified. However, Li Quan did not enter politics until after the Wanli Korean War. 1592, Japanese Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded Korea. On the recommendation of Liu Chenglong, Li Quan became the ambassador of Gwangju. Li Quan fought under Li Yan and moved to Seoul. However, Li Jun was finally defeated by the Japanese in Longren. Li Quan retreated to Gwangju and organized a thousand militiamen.

After the Japanese army arrived in Jinshan, Jeolla Road moved to Quanzhou. Li Quan led an army to Litchi Town, the gate of Quanzhou, to contain Japanese soldiers. Kobayakawa Takakage led ten thousand Japanese troops to attack Litchi, and Li Quan took one thousand militiamen to resist the Japanese attack. Li Quan personally supervises the array, and if there is a retreat, he will immediately cut it. Qin Huang, the leader of the militia, was hit by a spear, but he fought bravely. Li Quan defeated the Japanese and regained Jeolla Road.

The North Korean court commended Li Quan's achievements and appointed him as an observer and inspector of Jeolla Road the following year. Li Quan organized more than 10,000 militiamen and monks to go to Gyeonggi Province in an attempt to recapture Seoul. On the way, we continued to recruit and recruit, and the strength reached 20 thousand. Li Quan arrived in Bald City near Shui Yuan and was stationed there. The Japanese army surrounded the city for more than a month and the city was cut off from water. Li Quan used his quick wits and ordered several war horses to be taken to the wall and washed with rice, just like washing with a lot of water. The Japanese army tried to cut off the water supply in the city and surrendered. Seeing this situation, they had to return to Seoul. Li Quan took the opportunity to attack and killed more than 3,000 Japanese troops. After the war, Chunzu of North Korea set up a "horse washing platform" at the highest place in Tucheng to commemorate it. At the same time, he ordered the Japanese army to attack Seoul northward.

Li Quan led his 2,800 people to the dilapidated castle near Seoul-Xingzhou Mountain City. At this point, the Japanese army defeated the Ming army in the battle of Bihoff Pavilion, and was afraid of the arrival of Korean troops near the mountain city of Xingzhou, so they organized Yuxi Duoxiu, Ozawa Xiubao, Kobayakawa Takakage, Kuroda Changzheng, Konishi Yukinaga, Ishida Mitsunari, Yoshikawa Hiroshi and other ministries, and * * * ordered 30,000 people to besiege the mountain city of Xingzhou. Li Quan led 2800 men to fight, and repelled the Japanese attack with weapons such as trains and thunderbolts. This battle is a great victory in the history of Xingzhou.

Although Li Quan repelled the Japanese army, his troops suffered heavy casualties and retreated to Paju. In June of the same year, in the second battle of Jinzhou City, Li Quan advocated to meet the Japanese army and intercept the Japanese army in Xian 'an County. However, the Japanese attacked with spears, and the power army was defeated and retreated to the whole state.

Later, Li Quan was appointed Commander-in-Chief of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Korea. Because he treated deserters in a very rude way, he was dismissed from his post by the North Korean court, but he was quickly reinstated. 1597, the Japanese army invaded North Korea again, and the North Korean side said that Ding You was in chaos again. Li Quan ordered the North Korean navy to attack the Japanese army, but Yuan Jun, commander-in-chief of the navy, held a negative attitude. Li Quan was furious and whipped Yuan Jun, threatening him to go to war. Yuan Jun was forced to attack, and was attacked by Japanese Fujitani Gao Hu in the naval battle of Qichuanliang, and was defeated and died. Since then, the Japanese army has swept Jeolla Road and Chungcheong Road. Li Shunchen, the North Korean general, finally won a great victory, which bought time for the North Korean army and the Ming army. Soon after, Li Quan and the Ming army of Maguib planned to attack Ulsan and Japanese urban construction. Li Quan tried to attack, but Magway told him to retreat. Disagreement between the two armies led to defeat, and the Japanese army defeated the Ming and Korean allied forces in the Battle of Ulsan the following year. September to 10, defeated in the battle of Shuntian city.

1598, Toyotomi Hideyoshi died and Japanese troops withdrew from Korea. The following year, 63-year-old Li Quan resigned and returned to China, and died in July of the same year. After his death, he was posthumously awarded the post of state leader by the North Korean court, posthumous title Zhongzhuang. He was awarded the first-class Xuanwu hero with Li Shunchen and Yuan Jun.

The third destroyer of King Sejong of the Republic of Korea Navy was named "Li Quan" as a souvenir, with the ship number DDG 993.